IN SHORT SUPPLY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 29, 4 February 1925, Page 10

IN SHORT SUPPLY.

j NEW PLYMOUTH WATER. i i:f.sti:h I'lm\s i.umsr.n. NKW IM.Willi' I 11. this day. M.1., ii .1 meeting of the I'-.rough I'oiin.l! 1.11 Morula x niglu . "ilia! the shoring.' , ..I unlci 1- 'being 11-cl .1- v lexer lo , cmp-l 'Mm- 1" ii-.' i-U'clri.-.il power. If ■he |.ii-ii inn n it h regard 1" Ihe supply of I «:n..|- was -.. a.-ni.- Hun a supply c.'.uld I in'i be grained lor one hydraulic lilt. , ih..11 ii 1- lime ii,,. cuiiicil iook -icps io I ' rllli'llx it." ir. Smith moved ih.u ihe application 1 under consideration be grunted. ! 'I here ha- been a long -|..-11 of dry ! xxeiilhcr. .mil if this continues, restric- ' ti.,11- max luive to be pla I on the use ol wali-r in the dm 11-. The reservoir is n.oi' dropping lifi.-en inches daily, due lo the 11111 \x "il being great.-r liian the I x.ilume coming iv. Phi- in lorn is due lo ; Ihe smallness of the supply pipe running j from the lure buy to I lie reservoir. 1 The question uf in, reusing the supply Jot water to Xexx- Plymouth is one that jthc i-iiuiifil will luxe io consider in the incur future. A- a step towards con[seriing the present supply, the council - last night decided to adhere to ils preI vimis decision not to gram permits for I any further hydraulic lifts 111 the town. ■ The restriction.- about 1,1 lie imposed 'refer principally to the use of garden I hoses. j While discussing the application of ! Abraham Holdxiater for a hydraulic lift, j Councillor Brown expressed 'he opinion jthat now a supply of electric power was available (he council should not permit .the use „f water for litis. If no other ; power ii-as.avail.-ibli- then the position I would l„. different. i The Minor 1 Mr. Wilson, said the j trouble 44iis thai the shortage of water always occurred al this lime of the year. II was not a trouble peculiar t.i I New Plymouth: other towns and citie.----i suffered in the same way. Xew TVv--1 month wa.- al 11 stage v. hen it was nveV I faking ils present supply, but had n-.l yet reached the time when ,1 new- big scheme was essential. He was not looking at the application before the council from the point of view- ,if ii being only ,one ,-ase. The -ranting of v permit; I xvould create a precedent. and other j applications xvould follow. 1 Several councillors mentioned they knew applications that xvould come in if Ihe permit xvas granted. Councillor Smith's motion xvas lost on the voices.